JOHNSON TO FIGHT AGAIN.
MATCH WITH WELLS IN JUNE. PURSE OF £7000. By Telegraph.—Press Association— 1 London, December 4. The agents of Jack Johnson have been authorised to arrange a boxing match between the negro champion and Bombardier Wells. It is understood that Wells is, anxious to fight Johnson, and that the match will probably be fought in Paris next June for a purse of £7000. Johnson states that he is getting over the trouble in America all right. PAPKE BEATS BUENAIID. Paris, December 4. Billy Papke (the American boxer) beat Burnard (the French middleweight) in the seventh round of a match to-night.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15168, 6 December 1912, Page 7
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103JOHNSON TO FIGHT AGAIN. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15168, 6 December 1912, Page 7
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